Escaping double quotes

[ohshazbot]

I include the last commit message in my messaging, which works great until I recently did a revert and discovered that commit messages with double quotes break the action.

      - name: Deploy Complete Success Notification
        uses: slackapi/[email protected]
        if: success()
        env:
          MESSAGE: "${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_commit.message || github.event.head_commit.message }}"
        with:
          method: chat.postMessage
          token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_NOTIFICATIONS_BOT_TOKEN }}
          payload: |
            channel: monitoring
            text: "FRONTEND: Deployment of '${{ env.MESSAGE }}' to ${{ github.ref_name }} Completed"

I've tried wrapping env.MESSAGE in toJSON (as mentioned as a solution in https://github.com/slackapi/slack-github-action/issues/202), but that does not address the issue with double quotes it seems. I'm also not seeing any suggestions for how to overcome in https://tools.slack.dev/slack-github-action/sending-variables. What is the proper way to get this working correctly?

[zimeg]

Hey @ohshazbot! 👋 Thanks so much for sharing this example and references :books: ✨

The linked toJSON workaround requires that the variable with quotes is included within the entire text string before an attempt to escape - that expression wraps standalone strings in double quotes which might cause errors when included in another string 👾

For this setup I might recommend making the entire text an environment variable for later escaping as follows:

- name: Deploy Complete Success Notification
  uses: slackapi/[email protected]
  if: success()
  env:
    MESSAGE: "FRONTEND: Deployment of '${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_commit.message || github.event.head_commit.message }}' to ${{ github.ref_name }} Completed"
  with:
    method: chat.postMessage
    token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_NOTIFICATIONS_BOT_TOKEN }}
    payload: |
      channel: monitoring
      text: ${{ toJSON(env.MESSAGE) }}

Please let me know if this works for you, or if errors might still appear! 🙏

[ohshazbot]

Sweet, that worked. Thanks

[twe4ked]

Backticks "`" also fail.